Here's my quick partial history of Plain Text Accounting (PTA), to catch you up: - 2003: John Wiegley creates the field with the Ledger command line tool and i

Here's my quick partial history of Plain Text Accounting (PTA), to catch you up: - 2003: John Wiegley creates the field with the Ledger command line tool and its file format. - 2007, 2008: I and Martin Blais create two new "ledgerlikes", hledger and Beancount, with their own technologies/priorities/maintenance styles. - 2003-present: Community grows; many helper scripts, tools, docs, and other ledgerlikes appear. - 2016: To grow the ecosystem, organise resources, and reduce support effort, I coin the Plain Text Accounting phrase and set up #plaintextaccounting IRC channel and https://plaintextaccounting.org https://plaintextaccounting.org. (And in all honesty, also to encourage objective comparison shopping and regain a little oxygen for Ledger alternatives). - 2017: Colin Dean sets up the plaintextaccounting subreddit. - 2021: The community continues to grow. The IRC chat is bridged with a Matrix room. Ledger has been "done" for many years but may have a new release soon. hledger has been steadily developing, with quarterly releases. Beancount is in process of a big rewrite. There are some other strong ledgerlikes, currently with much smaller userbases.